Tag Archives: Nazca lines

If you drive south of Lima on the Pan Am Highway in Peru, you’ll drive by (and through) the Nazca Desert along the foothills of the Andes. This is one of the driest places in the world. The average rainfall is less than an inch (<2 cm) a year and some years there’s no rain at all. The Nazca Lines are an amazing group of geoglyphs etched into the surface of the desert. There are about 300 hundred figures that comprise the Nazca lines including, besides lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds.

Along the highway you can stop at the Mirador tower, built along the Pan Am highway. This tower allows people to climb up and see a …